ENGL 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Snopes.Com, Sherwood Anderson, Sharecropping
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Dr. garrett fall 2016 notes for exam 4 (lecture #18) Literary style: the first american to go stream-of-consciousness . Biographical information: born near oxford, mississippi, dropped out of high school, his love marries another man, it doesn"t work out. She comes back to faulkner and they wed: he worked at the post office, gets fired soon after, trained as a pilot in the royal flying corps in canada. He was a poor pilot and drank a lot: he went to new orleans to write. Anderson told him to write about his home. He did so, and won the nobel prize: his home was called roanoke, man will not only endure, he will prevail. Barn burning : the story focuses on the snopes" family. They came out of the hills and settled down. They are characterized as a conniving clan: the story is told from the point of view of the youngest son, sartorius.
